So I don't know if you've noticed, but there's been no Sunday School from Nelson for 3 weeks! It's something I looked forward to every Sunday. I figured that if I did, some one else probably did,…Continue

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"When Bob first showed up, I told him that I wasn't sold on his being Catholic and thought that he might lean far more towards deism. He replied with the Nicene Creed (or it might have been the Apostle's Creed, my memory is good, but not…"

"While on the topic of asking you questions, Bob, I am curious to know your take on divine revelation? As a man who by all accounts seems to favor reason over faith, I am curious to know how you personally view matters of divinely revealed knowledge…"

""It can't be measured. It can't be observed. Its existence can't be proved."I disagree. Electric potential energy can be measured. Thermal energy can be measured. The effects of kinetic energy being transferred…"

""In a lot of ways, what he seems to want is a relationship with God where he can behave like a whiny child (or worse, an emotionally abusive spouse). 'Do this for me, or I won't love you anymore'; 'If you don't do…"

""God-didn't-work-magic-for-me-when-I-insisted is hardly an argument."
It's not an argument. It's a realization. I would say that Physeter wasn't asking the professor for help because he was talking straight to the…"

"Congratulations are in order!I'm sorry though that it's taken a turn for the worse. Sometimes a soft approach works. I took that approach with my father about a sixth months or so before I actually told anyone. I don't know if it…"

"It's not pre-printed on the license plate. They offer you a sticker with the motto on it at the tag office. Sometimes. When I registered my vehicle, the lady didn't ask if I wanted one. They didn't have any of the stickers sitting…"

""We are only in the present temporarily when we have to focus."
That's a very Buddhist thought. In fact, the purpose of meditation is to train the mind to focus on the present moment and let go of everything that isn't happening…"

"The simplest answer for gaps in the fossil record are that some species didn't live in areas that were conducive to fossilization. Fossils normally occur in areas where rapid sedimentation can occur. When one considers the sheer totality of all…"

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Let me say only that Sagacious may be a word that at times describes me and other times may not, but regardless, it is something I aspire to be.

Age

25-30

Relationship Status

Single

Why are you here?

Because community is important and I have something of value to add and share with others.

The religion you left

Catholic

Why you left your religion.

I sought to discover whether or not my religious beliefs were true by giving them up and starting from scratch. If we just search honestly and earnestly for what is correct over what is false, then we will discover what is true. Needless to say, I did not find that God was truth. I found that Truth was and God was not.

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It's a strange crossroads that I've found myself. It all started last week when I received a text message seemingly out of the blue from my stepmother. She had been looking at something online and I guess decided that she should suggest I check out William Lane Craig's Reasonable Faith. I told her that I was well aware of the man and his arguments and I received in reply the "I'm worried about your eternal soul" conversation only that she used the word "future" instead of "eternal soul", but…

I wrote this for an English assignment just recently about the death of my sister and how it's affected me. I wanted to share it with all of you, because I may not be the only one who feels this way about a loved one's death. It's strange, the grieving process. Some days I'm ok. Some days I'm not.

So I stumbled across a Platonic writer by the name of Celsus from the 2nd century who wrote a damning critique of Christianity back in his day. It turns out many of the problems with Christianity have been around as long as the religion itself! Unfortunately, the original work was lost, but a Christian writer, Origen, wrote a counter argument where he quoted Celsus extensively. Those quotes have been translated into…

I've been thinking lately about moving back home. I will be there soon after eight years and thousands of miles of being away. My father the other day on the phone said that we needed to have a “long talk” when I get back. He never referred to what it was that he needed to talk about, but it's got me thinking about what it could be. At this point, it could be a lot of things, so I've tried to keep myself from speculating. My father, for those of you who don't…

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Hi SH, i wanted to contribute a couple of information to Sunday School from where i'm from. I don't want to use the group because it would be sent to everyone. Keep in mind that this information is in Spanish, so if you want to read it you need to use google site translator in google chrome.

Profamily, a secular, private organization that was sent to trial by the catholic church for ads promoting the use of condoms and safe sex because, in their word, would lead to abortion and rebellion. Profamily won the trial

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